BEFORE YOU START READING MY ARTICLE, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT , I AM NOT SAYING ZIMMERMAN IS NOT GUILTY, I AM NOT SAYING HE DESERVED TO BE ACQUITTED OF 2ND DEGREE MURDER. WE ALL KNOW THAT MAN IS GUILTY OF ATLEAST MANSLAUGHTER.
ALL IM TRYING TO SAY IS I UNDERSTAND WHY THE JURY REACHED THE NOT GUILTY VERDICT. I GUESS WHAT IM TRYING TO SAY IS RACE HAD NO INFLUENCE IN THE JURY REACHING THEIR VERDICT. THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED TO THEM MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND HIM GUILTY.
So , i woke to lots of posts on different social media black people including celebrities venting out their disappointment in the George Zimmerman trial verdict. Hivi where they following the trial like i was au ni ushabiki wa kutetea sababu they are black?
Ukweli ni kwamba hata mie nilitaka Zimmerman awe found guilty but that's just because I am black and my emotions were involved. Yani nilivyosikia tu the case from the media i immediately immediately reached my own verdict, GUILTY bila hata kusikia facts. All i considered to reach that verdict was "a white man (i even disregarded he is Hispanic) carrying a gun killed a man because he was black and wearing a hood"
Ila sasa wakati wa the actual trial i changed my mind. Yani mie i must have been a lawyer in my past life....lol...maana napenda sana kufatilia trials, 90% of the time ukinikuta naangalia TV basi naangalia crime channel....lol... Siku nikiua mtu i will get away with it walahi....hahahhahahahahahhahaahahhaah
Sasa this is why i think the jury was 100% right to let Zimmerman go. Jamani the law says to be convicted the person should be GUILTY BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT. In this particual case the prosecutors did not even come close to fulfilling this crucial part of the law.
Infact they created a lot of doubt and left so many unasnwered questions. I can live with a SETTING A GUILTY MAN FREE THAN JAILING AN INNOCENT ONE.
Ntaanza na the states' star witness, Rachel Jeantel. Black people wanalalamika kuhusu white people being racist ila the comments black people made about Rachel Jeantel's weight and speech were so mean and hurtful. On the stand Rachel Jeantel was caught in so many lies, most of which she admitted she told because she wanted to make Trevon's mom feel better, she admited she exaggerated a lot of stuff. Although she stood firm and never changed her story about the actual events as she was on the phone with Trevon but by the time she got off the stand it was really hard to tell which part of her testimony was true, which part wasnt, which part was exaggerated and which part wasnt. She admitted on the stand that during her very first interview with the police she did not mention to them that Trevon yelled 'GET OFF ME' but she added it on a later interview with the police. Then she testified that Trevon said 'This weird ass white cracker is following me' when asked if she thought that was a racist comment she said no. Yani mie mwenyewe i had to laugh, who doesnt know that the African Americans call white people 'cracker' which is equivalent though not as notorious as 'nigger'? Yani mwisho was siku she had no credibility and it was hard to send a man to jail based on her story.After her testional REASONABLE DOUBT was still there.Yani hiyo sentence ya white ass cracker made Trevon the racist rather than Zimmerman and ikaonyesha kuwa Trevon alishajiweka tayari kwa confrontation with someone he saw as an enemy which creates the possibiliy that Trevon could have had thrown the first punch.
Other state witness somehow turned into defense witnesses on the stand when they testified that Trevon Martin was on top of Zimmerman during the fight punching him on the face. And they testified kuwa Zimmerman was part of the neighbourhood watch group which was formed sababu there had been a lot of burglaries inside the gated community, that to me justied why Zimmerman took interest in Trevon and decided to 'check out' what he was up to.
No one came forward to testify that Zimmerman had a history of racism. None of his neighbours spoke ill of him. Which ofcourse leaves one to wonder if Zimmerman is an evil racist man set to kill a black man or if this was just a terrible unforeseeable accident.Again the issue of REASONABLE DOUBT comes to mind.
Then you have the parents of both Zimmerman and Trevon testiefying on the stand that the voice heard on the 911 tape crying for help was that of their son. Who do you believe???????? Again REASONABLE DOUBT.....
Prosecutors said Zimmerman came out of his car with a gun following an unarmed teenager even after 911 operator told him not to pursue him. Zimmerman defence showed that Zimmerman had no way of knowing for sure Trayvon was unarmed, he was a total stranger who did not live in the gated community and because it was dark he couldnt tell it was just a teenage boy.Zimmerman being a "fake" policeman for the gated community justified why he took interest in Trevon Martin. This was his responsibility.
BOTTOM LINE IS no one saw what actually happened. You have one person (Rachel) who heard over the phone but did not see, the same person that admitted on the stand to lying to the police about some parts of her story to make the case stronger, the few that actually saw a small part of the incident said they saw Trayvon on top of Zimmerman.
The state knew they had a weak case from the beginning. Mnakumbuka jinsi walivyokuwa wana stall kumcharge Zimmerman and bring him to trial? They knew they would lose but after all that pressure from the public they gave in. When you have a case ambayo the state doesnt realy want to go to trial it's because they know THEY CAN NOT PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT that the person is guilty. In the end the jury were left with reasonable doubt kuwa maybe Zimmerman was attacked and over powered by the 'cracker hating" Trayvon as his own best friend Rachel said on the stand. Like i said for most people its better to let a GUILTY MAN GO FREE THAN JAIL AN INNOCENT MAN.
Y'all remember the O.J Simpson case, that nigga was guilty as f**** but got off simply because his awesome team of expesinve lawyers created 'REASONABLE DOUBT' by finding simple ,little stupid lies that some of the witness told ,by showing one of the police men on the murder scene was a racist and therefore could have planted evidence. All they did was create doubt for the jury. The moment a jury sees a reasonable possibility of the defendant being innocent the law says they shouldn't convict.
Putting all the facts aside if i was in that jury i was definately going to convict Zimmerman just because Trayvon is black, im black and Zimmerman is hispanic. No wonder no black people were put on the jury.
ALL IN ALL it could be true that Trevon's race made him a target, that by no means sets Zimmerman apart as the bad guy, in this country a lot of people are suspicious of black people they do not know ,especially at night. Even black people themselves are afraid of other black peole. Mie mwneye kusema ukweli nikiona a black man anapita kwa mguu karibu na kwangu tayari naanza kuogopa.....lol...